The Albert Nyanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources
Samuel White Baker's 1866 travel account of exploring Lake Albert and the Nile sources in East Africa, published in London and Philadelphia for a general readership of armchair travellers. The four plates are wood engravings in the house style of the period: a long procession of figures crossing open ground, a line of men running beside a herd, a camp scene with two seated men tending pots over a fire, and a bust portrait of a man with a feathered headdress. A designer could take from them the layered line-and-hatch engraving texture and the strong contrast of dark figures against pale ground.
